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"What, midnight!" she cried, starting up. "I must go." "No, no;" he took her hand. "Yes, yes; don't you know, at the stroke of midnight I change back to a governess." "Well, the magic didn't work, for that clock's very slow. Sit down, please." "You have spoken the omen. I remain Nelly O'Neill and drop Eileen for ever. Vogue la galère." "Absit omen!" He shuddered. "Why not? What do you offer me?
Animula, blandula vagula that's the sort of ring for it, but Latin's mostly too heavy. Io, Hymen, Hymenae, Io; Io, Hymen, Hymenae! What's that? A wedding song of Catullus absit omen. I must be in love with her indeed. He got up from the piano, and paced quickly and feverishly up and down the room. 'And yet, he went on, 'if only I weren't bound down so by this unprofitable trade of parson!
Waqua remarked it in the other's eyes, and a gleam of satisfaction lighted up his face. Throwing the deer he had killed over his shoulder, and taking a small bundle of skins in his hand, the Indian preceded his companion on their way to the settlement. "Absit, quoth the doctor."
They discussed literature but the book had fallen to the floor. 'Absit omen'! If printing had then been invented, undoubtedly there would have been a book instead of an apple in the third chapter of Genesis. He confided to her his plan of collecting his father's letters and of writing the General's life. Honora, too, would enjoy writing a book.
He, too, raised his arm as if for a downward thrust. Absit omen! Red trails are seen like cataracts of rust streaming under the dark-green foliage of bushes and creepers clothing the low cliffs. Swampy plains open out at the mouth of rivers, with a view of jagged blue peaks beyond the vast forests.
After this smiling season the weather lowers, the storm breaks, and all is elemental rage, when from being a manner of demigod the unhappy ruler gradually becomes one of the 'meanest and basest of men. Absit omen! We returned at sunset to Government House and spent a pleasant evening. The 'smokes' had vanished, and with them the frowse and homeliness of morning.
Oh, ABSIT OMEN! Columba was borne up by hopes which Verronax would not dash to the ground, and she received his embrace with steadfast, though brimming eyes, and an assurance that she would pray without ceasing.
When it was told to Patrick that he had caught a salmon in this way, Patrick uttered the famous saying: "Seorsim viri et seorsim foeminae ne occasionem dare intirmis inveniantur et ne nomen Domini per nos blasphemetur, quid absit a nobis," for God does not assist any unjust, false man; i.e., non temptabis Dominum Deum tuum.
Absit omen! And what, indeed, can there be common between Goths and Greeks of the Lower Empire, who lived thirteen hundred years ago, with the good Catholic subjects, and the quiet Catholic city of our Holy Father the Pope, in the nineteenth century!
such a man is five hundred cubits above kingdoms and duchies; he is an absolute monarch in and to himself: "Sapiens, . . . Pol! ipse fingit fortunam sibi;" what remains for him to covet or desire? "Nonne videmus, Nil aliud sibi naturam latrare, nisi ut, quoi Corpore sejunctus dolor absit, mente fruatur, Jucundo sensu, cura semotu' metuque?"
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